2023届江西省新余市高三第二次模拟考试英语试题

试卷第1页，共9页 2023届江西省新余市高三第二次模拟考试英语试题

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一、阅读理解

Books for Children

Spill the Beans

Author: Sarah Mlynowski

My brother Jonah’s dream has come true. We have finally landed in his favorite fairytale:

Jack and the Beanstalk! It’s a lot of fun meeting Jack. But then we accidentally mess up his

story, which means Jack can’t climb up the magic beanstalk to find the giant’s(巨人的) riches.

It’s time to take matters into our own hands.

Seeing Red

Author: Sarah Mlynowski

Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go! Abby and Jonah

are off to visit their grandmother, who knows all about fairy tales. But things go wrong when

they wind (蜿蜒而行) up in the classic fairytale of Little Red Rid ng Hood. Will they escape

from the big bad wolf in time?

Hearts of Ice

Author: Adi Rule

Evangeline has been lonely her whole life. Her mother rarely lets her play outside,

especially not when it’s snowing. On her birthday, Evangeline finds her window has blown

open, and her room is full of snow. There’s a message written in the frost. One word: HELP.

Evangeline learns that she has a sister, a twin, in fact. They were both born in another

world—a land of snow and music and ancient magic. Now, someone is calling Evangeline

back, and will stop at nothing to attract her into the magical place where danger waits.

1．What does Jonah do in Spill the Beans?

A．He plays a trick on Jack as a giant.

B．He dresses up as Jack to cheat the giant.

C．He goes into a fary tale and meets Jack.

D．He gives Jack a lot of priceless treasures.

2．What happens to Abby and Jonah on their visit to grandmother’s?

A．They fall into the river. B．They meet a big bad wolf. 试卷第2页，共9页 C．They get lost in the woods. D．They can’t find their storybook.

3．Where will Evangeline go in Hearts of Ice?

A．The world where she was born. B．The country where it never snows.

C．The house where her mother lives. D．The place where her sister has been to.

I have been addicted to books since I was born. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t

read: It was almost like breathing to me. My fictional worlds took me to all the places I

needed to go and I experienced everything indirectly.

My father was in the military service when I was a child, so we moved every two years,

but we insisted on going to bookshops wherever we lived. He would take me to the nearest

bookshop every Saturday morning and wait patiently while I browsed(随便看看) —after all,

the choosing of a new book is something that cannot be rushed. And so started my lifelong

love affair with bookshops.

One day I was thinking up the setting for How to Find Love in a tiny bookshop when a

feeling of calm, contentment, and excitement came over me. It was a feeling of perfect

happiness. That was my light bulb moment: My book would be set in a bookshop, and I could

explore what books meant to each of my characters and how they had shaped their lives.

The book isn’t just about discovering romantic love. It’s about finding the love of books:

something that can sustain you throughout your life, and provide escape, entertainment,

education, comfort, wonder. And, as I learned from my own father, it’s a love you can share

with everyone. There is nothing more satisfying than sharing something you have read with

someone else, knowing they will love it as much as you do.

But if we are to keep bookshops alive, we need to use them, and to encourage the next

generation to make them apart of their life and view bookshops as a treat, a pleasure, an

adventure, a gateway, so they become something we can’t live without. Thus my challenge to

you, fellow readers, is to go to your local bookshops as often as possible and come out with

something that might change your life.

4．Which word best describes the author’s relationship with bookshops as a child?

A．Distant. B．Casual. C．Inseparable. D．Cooperative.

5．What does the underlined part “light bulb moment” in paragraph 3mean?

A．A moment of relief. B．A moment of depression.

C．A moment of sudden shock. D．A moment of sudden inspiration. 试卷第3页，共9页 6．What might the book How to Find Love talk about?

A．How books affect people’s lives. B．Romantic stories of the author’s parents.

C．How bookshops become popular. D．T ouching stories between father and

daughter.

7．What does the author call on readers to do?

A．Purchase her books. B．Frequent bookshops.

C．Share books with others. D．Sponsor local bookshops.

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